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APOD - Active Regions, CMEs, and X Class Flares

False color X-ray image of the Sun displays an active, flare-producing region. Learn what effects solar flares have on the Earth.

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap000608.html

APOD - Approaching the International Space Station

Check out the view the crew of Space Shuttle Atlantis captured as they approached the International Space Station.

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap000918.html

APOD - AR9077: Solar Magnetic Arcade

View a false-color image taken by the orbiting TRACE satellite of solar active region 9077 shortly after a massive eruption.

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap000720.html

APOD - Mount Megantic Magnetic Storm

Photo of the result of a collision between plasma from the Sun and debris from a comet. Mount-Megantic Popular Observatory is in the foreground.

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap000817.html

Astro Picture of the Day - 2nd Millennium, Last Eclipse

Enjoy a photo of the Christmas Day 2000 solar eclipse, the final eclipse of the second millennium. Picture taken by Philipp Rau.

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap010105.html

Astro Picture of the Day - 3rd Millennium/First Eclipse

View a picture illustrating the different stages of the first eclipse of the third millennium. Includes photo credits.

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap010104.html

Astro. Picture of the Day - A Solar Filament Lifts Off

Photograph taken on July 19 by the Earth-orbiting TRACE satellite displays an eruption of hot gas on the Sun, also known as a solar filament.

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap000809.html

Astro. Picture of the Day - Airplane in Front of Sun

View solar photographer Thierry Lagault's of an airplane crossing in front of the sun. Includes details on how the image was taken.

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap010129.html

Astro. Picture of the Day - Coronal Rain, Solar Storm

Presents an awe-inspiring image of the sun's surface, taken on November 9th by the orbiting TRACE telescope.

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap001115.html

Astro. Picture of the Day - Solstice & Season's Eclipse

View Sebastien Gauthier's photograph of the sun during an annular eclipse in 1994. Includes a comparison to the December 25, 2000 eclipse.

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap001221.html

Astronomy Picture of the Day - AR 9169: A Large Sunspot

Ray Gralak's photograph of the sun reveals a sunspot in the AR 9169 region which is twice the diameter of the average sunspot.

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap000925.html

Astronomy Picture of the Day - Heating Coronal Loops

Image from the orbiting TRACE satellite reveals the fiery coronal loops extending above the surface of the sun.

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap000928.html

Astronomy Picture of the Day - Helios Helium

NASA image, made by using ultraviolet light emitted by ionized helium atoms in the solar chromosphere, displays the fiery nature of the sun.

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap010120.html

Astronomy Picture of the Day - Solstice Celebration

False-color composite of three images made in extreme ultraviolet light reveals the active Sun. Taken by the SOHO observatory's EIT instrument.

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap000621.html

Astronomy Picture of the Day - The Ecliptic Plane

Artful photograph taken by the 1994 lunar prospecting Clementine spacecraft reveals the sun's corona peeking above the surface of the moon.

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap001014.html

Astronomy Picture of the Day - The Solar Spectrum

View a spectrum of the Sun's visible colors, produced at the McMath-Pierce Solar Observatory with a prism-like device.

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap000815.html